The Craft of Fiction: How to Become a Novelist

Author(s): Jonathan Falla

Writing Skills

Writers Guides- An Aber-Publishing Series Who else wants to write a best seller? What lies at the beating heart of this book is the belief that good writing can be taught and this is what this book sets out to do. This book provides detailed advice on writing fiction. This book: Teaches skills of storytelling Explains finding stories, narrative structures, plots, building tension, characterisation, descriptions of place and time, dialogue, editing. Provides examples from classic and modern fiction (and including films), with points for consideration and exercise. The author is a prize-winning literary novelist and dramatist with wide experience of teaching CW students, and mentoring aspiring writers.


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Jonathan Falla is a prolific author and playwright. He has written scripts for a theatre group & schools. A feature film, The Hummingbird Tree, was produced by the BBC, winning several awards. He has had many stories & two novels published: Blue Poppies and Poor Mercy. Jonathan has held a Fullbright Senior Fellowship in screenwriting, and has also taught creative writing for the Arvon Foundation.

1 introduction 2 finding stories 3. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTION - THE ART OF LYING 4. STORYBOOKS 5: CHARACTER, CONFLICT, STORY 6. WHO TELLS THE STORY? - VOICE, POINTS OF VIEW AND TENSE 7. NARRATIVE STRUCTURE 8. RESEARCH: DIGGING FOR TRUFFLES 9. LANDSCAPE, TOWNSCAPE, WEATHER 10. PEOPLE PORTRAYED 11. FERTILE PLOTS 12. DIALOGUE 13. INTERIOR DESIGNS 14. FICTION AND FILM 15. SHORT STORIES 16. EDITING

General Fields

  • : 9781842851043
  • : Studymates Ltd
  • : Aber Publishing
  • : 0.34
  • : January 2011
  • : 215mm X 135mm X 15mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : August 2011
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Jonathan Falla
  • : Paperback
  • : 808.3
  • : 160